* on the Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:03:15PM +0530, Mukund N Rathi said:
> 
> I agree with most of the mails saying "Broadband and easy Internet 
> Connectivity will give a boost to use of Open Source".
> However I think it will still take time.

Yes, it will take time. No one said, that it will happen
instantaneously. The point is that fast unrestricted access to the
internet is required to *really* learn and try linux/other open source
technologies which was missing in India till now. The proliferation of
high speed net connections might give a boost to piracy also, but its
effect on open source adoption cannot be undermined. 

> 
> versions of Linux I thought). but after Red hat going commercial, i 
> have, Kinda stopped
> using it. And Now I am trying a totally different thing. Mac OS. 

Redhat was always commercial. It has just forked off a new community
supported distro for desktops. It has now stopped supporting two
distributions, one for desktops and one for servers (RHEL).

> currently working on 10.3.5 cuz my Tiger is not stable and crashes 
> every now and then.

[OT Questions] Which machine (ibook, powerbook ...) are you using for this ?
If you don't mind can you tell me (offlist) how much did it cost you ? I am
also interested in purchasing a mac portable now.

> 
> Tell me, If microsoft releases the code of Windows 9x, then will 
> windows 9x become a OSS?

Yes, it will if microsoft decides to release it according to the terms
of the opensource license (www.opensource.org).

> 
> Can someone please Explain me, in very very short cuz I have read that 
> site, What's OSS, and whether this group is a OSS users group or Linux 
> user group?
> 

www.opensource.org
www.gnu.org


HTH
Sharninder

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